Ben and I were able to escape for a day because my sister and her husband were very generous! They watched the kids and we enjoyed a "staycation." We had both never been to the Great Salt Lake and so we decided to take a trip out to Antelope Island to check it out. Ben really wanted to go swimming in it as he had never floated in salt water before, but the weather did not cooperate with us, it was windy, rainy and a little chilly!
Below is a view from Antelope Island look back toward the Layton area. Look at those massive rain clouds!
We decided to get out and walk along this beach area. The sand was really cool to look at, it is not regular sand. It is called oolitic sand and looks like perfect round little balls. I could not get the camera to take a close up of it, but it was super cool to look at.
Visiting the wildlife...:)
As you can imagine, this island is a bird paradise, but unfortunately these lovely seagulls were all we saw.
Looking out across the Great Salt Lake toward another island and the Promontory Mountains.
And of course...when we went to pick up our lovely kiddos, here is what we found...
Kiera was her mischievious, happy self!
And Jade had way too much fun getting all dressed up and having her hair done by Aunt Kae!
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